88 Canadian Record of Science. 
When the Royal Society of Canada was founded by the 
Marquis of Lorne, it was made to include Newfoundland, 
and Murray was appointed one of the original Fellows. In 
1882 he contributed to its Transactions an interesting paper 
on ‘The Glaciation of Newfoundland.” He was elected a 
Fellow of the Geological Society of London in 1870, and 
in 1878 was created a C.M.G. through the recommendation 
of Sir John Glover, then Governor of Newfoundiand. 
When Logan and Murray commenced the Geological 
Survey of old Canada the greater part of the areas of both 
provinces were uninhabited, unsurveyed and unknown. The 
problem before them was to ascertain the general geological 
structure and the geographical distribution of the rock- 
formations, in spite of these difficulties. The region was so 
vast that it required some courage for two men to under- 
take this task. It was impossible for them to map out the 
rocks without making their. own topographical surveys 
simultaneously with the geological ones. They could only 
do this by following the rivers and lakes through the 
forests and mapping them out as they went along. These 
surveys have subsequently proved to be wonderfully accu- 
rate, considering the difficulties under which our pioneers 
had to labor, and ever since they were made they have 
been found to be of the greatest service, even up to the 
present time; and, as topographical surveys alone, they 
have repaid many times over their small original cost. 
But in addition to much of this kind of work, Murray 
made regional geological surveys of a considerable area on 
the north side of the North Channel of Lake Huron, of the 
area south and west of a line from Kingston to Penetangut- 
shene, including the lake peninsula of Upper Canada, and 
of the country between the St. Lawrence and Ottawa 
rivers, as far west as a line from Kingston to Bytown. 
- Besides assisting Logan in exploring parts of the north 
shore of Like Superior, Murray’s own work on that lake 
consisted of surveys of the Kaministiquia River, Dog Lake 
and River, Michipicoten River and Batchawana Bay, and 
also an examination of the south shore as far west as 
